Timeline for Orbital Drop Pods: Useful?
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| Nov 29, 2017 at 14:20 | comment | added | Dave Sherohman | What's their niche? "There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can." | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 21:32 | comment | added | Paul TIKI | I took the OP question to mean a ship comes in, drops stuff, maybe orbits a few times, then retrieves and leaves after the area has been sufficiently pummeld. Drop troops, for the most part, are not stealthy. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 19:25 | comment | added | Leliel | @Muuski that probably wouldn't be all that difficult to arrange, Unless the drop pods have some kind of technomagic drive that just completely ignores physics, there's going to be a blazing beacon (in radio, visible light, and infrared) pointing right at the dropzone from the re-entry heating. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 19:11 | comment | added | Muuski | When you mentioned estimating the drop zone, the first thing I thought of was launching an artillery barrage that would land at the same place same time....Ouch. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 13:42 | comment | added | G0BLiN | I think OP's drop pods are meant to be used when invading other planets - when a race have the capabilities to take their military to a different celestial body (possibly even a different star system), the logistics problems you raise here are probably negligible. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 5:27 | comment | added | WorldCraftTrainee | Territorial conquest. | |
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| Nov 27, 2017 at 4:20 | history | answered | user137 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |